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Marijuana dispensary employees arrested for illegal sales by Vickie Vértiz
to customers without prescriptions, reported the Desert Sun. On the afternoon of Thursday, October 2, sheriff deputies from San Bernardino County arrived at Top Shelf Wellness Center, on 40th Street to serve a search warrant, said the Sun. The dispensary is located in an unincorporated region of the
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county, with San Bernardino surrounding it from every direction. The paper reported that the two people arrested were Highland resident Rodrick Walker, 37, and Apple Valley resident Kenneth Hunt, 23, according to Please see page 2
San Bernardino Public Library to host manga/anime workshop by Mexico City’s Gaby Maya Artist and writer, Gaby Maya, will be visiting the San Bernardino Public Library on Wednesday, October 22, 2014 at 3:30 p.m. She will do a talk about some of the origins of manga and anime, as well as the influence of manga and anime in Mexico.
Gaby says, “We have a culture here (in Mexico) where anime has been a bridge to close the generation gap between parents and kids. Because everyone has watched an anime they love, and thanks to the constant re-runs, they share it with their kids. It’s something very
California only state to see progress covering uninsured children Alex Johnson, Executive Director of the Children’s Defense Fund - California, released the following statement on the U.S. Census Bureau’s State Health Insurance Coverage Estimates: “Today’s health insurance numbers show more than a 6 percent drop in the number of uninsured children in California between 2012 and 2013 – which means 56,884 more children now have health coverage. Significant progress increasing the number of covered children nationwide has decreased the number of uninsured children to historic lows. These gains are mostly due to the strong coverage guarantees in Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), which last year provided comprehensive health and mental health coverage to more than 44 million children across the country, and more than half of California’s children. “Since 2011, CDF-CA in partnership with AASA, the School Superintendent’s Association in California has increased the capacity of school districts to identify uninsured children and link them to health coverage. California was the only state in the country to see a statistically significant decrease in the number of uninsured children in 2013. “However, even as we cel-
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While marijuana dispensaries are on the hit list for the city attorney in San Bernardino, some of those businesses near the county are also having a bit of bad luck. Authorities recently arrested two employees in unincorporated San Bernardino County on the suspicion that they were selling marijuana
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Museum exhibit recalls 50 years at the “Calico Dig” The San Bernardino County Museum will recognize the 50th anniversary of the Calico Mountains Archaeological Excavation with a special exhibit, “50 Years Ago: The Calico Dig.” The exhibit will open on October 11 and will continue through November 9, 2014. A companion exhibit at the Victor Valley Museum in Apple Valley opened October 18. The Calico Mountains Archaeological Site (once called the Calico Early Man Site) is a quarry and tool production site near Yermo, California. For thousands of years, prehistoric people gathered stones (chalcedony and chert) from which to fashion tools for hunting, preparing food, and making other tools. Dr. Louis Leakey, Ruth DeEtte (Dee) Simpson, and Dr. Gerald A. Smith, then director of the San Bernardino County Museum, established the Calico
Mountains Archaeological Site in 1964. The National Geographic Society funded the first four years of excavation. The site was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. It is the only site in the Americas where Dr. Leakey— famous for his groundbreaking work in the Olduvai Gorge of Africa—directed a project. Continuously excavated for 50 years, the site is still active with the help of trained volunteers, college classes, and scout groups. The Friends of the Calico Early Man Site, incorporated in 1981, cares for this important public resource and provided the funding for this exhibit. The San Bernardino County Museum is open Tuesdays through Sundays from 9 am to 5pm. For more information, visit www.sbcountymuseum. org. Visitor Services’ telephone number is 909-307-2669.
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law enforcement and the Sun. When the two individuals were arrested, both suspects were under the influence of drugs, not surprisingly marijuana, when they were found at the dispensary. The Sun also stated that the dispensary was operating even though it had received a ceaseand-desist notification from the county, according to a law enforcement statement. According to the sheriffs, they confirmed that the two suspects “made no effort to confirm if customers were medical marijuana patients,” said the Sun. To add to their fate, the two men had a loaded .357 revolver in the store, that was reported as stolen in Hesperia, hidden among marijuana jars, said the paper. They also found five pounds of bud and 15 grams of concentrated cannabis, the Sun confirmed. Even though opening new medical marijuana dispensaries has been illegal in the city of San Bernardino since 2007, it has proven difficult to enforce and apply fines because of a temporary moratorium was extended as late as 2011, as this paper reported in June of this year. The collected city fines could have totaled $1,000 per day for each illegal dispensary, but the enforcement was on hold.
Also, the process of enforcement is costly, said Saenz to the Sun earlier this summer, and with the current economic challenges, San Bernardino has spent “valuable and limited police, code enforcement and attorney resources with frustratingly insignificant results.” Furthermore, “Our message is loud and clear,” said a statement on the Facebook page that belongs to the City Attorney and previously reported in this paper. “It is time for illegal operators to leave San Bernardino — this City’s leadership and Police Department view these dispensaries as a public nuisance and an obstacle to our efforts to build a prosperous city. I will work closely with the Council, Mayor and Police Chief to develop an effective plan that will eliminate the operation of illegal dispensaries. This will include the liberal use of penalties, fines and liens against irresponsible property owners that will be aggressively imposed, enforced and collected. Beginning August 18, illegal pot shops will no longer be welcome in San Bernardino.” The Sun had reported that the proposal by city attorney Saenz highlighted the dispensary connection to gangs, in a city that has seen multiple gangrelated shootings in the last few months. The latest arrests, however, were not gang-related.
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ebrate progress in providing children a healthy start, CHIP faces a very real threat. If Congress doesn’t take action, there will be no new funding for CHIP starting this time next year. If that happens, millions of children could lose their health coverage, and millions more would pay more for less coverage. Since CHIP’s bipartisan beginning in 1997, it has been a lifeline for millions of
children in working families and has played a critical role in reducing the rate of uninsured children by half. CHIP remains a crucial source of coverage for millions of children, even in the post- Affordable Care Act (ACA) world. Congress must act to extend funding for CHIP this year to ensure that children’s health coverage and outcomes continue to improve.”
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Math and Science - Not Just for Rocket Scientists By Dick Resch Looking to get rich? Try welding. For the third consecutive year, positions in the skilled trades are the hardest to fill, according to a Manpower Group survey of American employers. This shortage is why a master welder can earn a six-figure salary -- without a college degree. There aren’t enough skilled tradesmen because our nation’s schools aren’t producing graduates with the math and science knowledge needed to fill these skilled jobs. That has to change. Educators must rethink the way they teach math and science -- especially to students who may not go to college. The best way to reach these kids is to scrap the age-old lecture and empower them to learn by doing. International rankings reveal the depths of America’s underachievement. Among 34 developed nations, the United States ranks 27th in math and 20th in science. More than one-quarter of U.S. students lack even basic profi-
ciency in math. That’s 13 percent higher than the global average. This poor performance is concerning, as these students risk economic marginalization. A million people drop out of high school each year. Most don’t participate in the labor force. Those that do face an unemployment rate 50 percent higher than their graduating peers. That low-performing quarter of students also includes many who complete high school yet still lack the math skills needed for most entry-level manufacturing jobs -- let alone the skilled-trade positions that could vault them into the middle class. Philadelphia Federal Reserve President Charles Plosser said earlier this year, “We are seeing a mismatch of skills in the workforce and the jobs that are being created.” To fill these jobs -- and provide livelihoods for millions -- we must keep students who struggle with math in school and find ways to boost their achievement. According to the National
Training Laboratories, the traditional lecture format yields only a 5 percent learning retention rate. Allowing students to practice by doing, in contrast, results in a whopping 75 percent retention rate. The way forward is clear: Embrace technology, collaboration, and hands-on learning. Already, colleges are adopting this approach. The University of Pennsylvania has built a new classroom with customized, powered round tables so students can collaborate using all manner of technology. It plans to add three to four more such classrooms over the next year. MIT’s Technology-Enabled Active Learning (TEAL) Project merges lecture, simulation, collaborative learning, and hands-on experiments in one classroom. Failure rates for freshmen in a TEAL physics course were one-third those in the traditional setting. Average gains in understanding were more than double. Gains were highest among students at the bottom of the achievement ladder. Engaged learning models
are trickling down into elementary and secondary schools, too. In Philadelphia, several schools are using the Full Option Science System, a hands-on, activity-based approach that empowers students to investigate, experiment, and collaborate to discover the material in each lesson. Students at FOSS schools have scored higher on standardized tests. The longer they’re in the program, the greater the gains in achievement. Administrators across the country are enlisting the firm I lead, KI, to help them transform their traditional classrooms into technology-enhanced learning environments, where students work in small groups while instructors rove about, offering individualized help and coaching. To refill the ranks of the middle class with good-paying manufacturing jobs, we must address our nation’s math and science achievement gap. The instructional status quo isn’t working. There’s ample evidence that a more active, engaged approach will.
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mini anime festival at the library on Thursday, October 23, 2014 from 2:00-5:30. Gaby Maya was born in Mexico City and has been working in comics since 1993, first as a
writer for Editorial AGA, for their adaptation of the Japanese anime series Saint Seiya into a series of collectible magazines. Later that same year, Gaby worked for Editorial Mango & Editorial Toukan,
first as a coloring artist, then as a cartoonist. In 1994, she made her debut as a comic book writer. Maya adapted a Japanese cartoon TV show Captain Tsubasa (based on a football team) into a comic book titled Super Campeones del Fútbol for Mexican children. By doing so, she succeeded in making the manga style become popular in Mexico.From 1996 through 2004, Gaby became a comic books editor for both Editorial Toukan and Editorial Mango. She introduced manga comic books in Mexico with several titles such as Dragon Ball Z, Ranma 1/2, and Card Captor Sakura, among many others. From 2004 through 2008, Gaby worked in the licensing industry as the Brand Assurance Coordinator for the popular dolls brand BRATZ for MGAE, as well
as for NINTENDO of America, Annoying Thing and others. Since 2008, Gaby has been a freelance writer, illustrator and talent agent, working for different Entertainment Magazines, such as Conexion Manga. In 2011 she was a script writer for a couple of Mexican political parties during their campaigns; and in 2013, she wrote and co-hosted a mini-series for the cultural channel in Mexico, Canal 22; talking about the history and importance of Japanese comics and entertainment, and their influence worldwide, but particularly in Latin America and Mexico. You can see Gaby’s webcomic Pirates of Aquelondeat her DeviantArt gallery at: gabycat.deviantart.com For more information call the library at 909-381-8238 or visit www.sbpl.org